Sentences with phrase «on a shoestring budget of»

Edwards filmed his debut feature (Monsters, 2010)-- about two people travelling across America six years after aliens invaded Earth — on a shoestring budget of just $ 800,000 with a minuscule crew of just seven people.

Over the past 5 years, Lawyers for Literacy has raised more than $ 60,000 for WBYO, which runs pretty much on a shoestring budget of approximately $ 80,000 per year.

Mr. Spence is able to operate his solo law practice on a shoestring budget of less than $ 400 per month — excluding his malpractice insurance.

Intellectual property and litigation attorney, Arthur Spence, shares how he manages his solo law practice on a shoestring budget of $ 400 per month.

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Growing on a shoestring budget is difficult enough and the lack of capital often results in some tough decisions when it comes to relocating the already limited funds.

When considering whether to pursue VC or to begin your business on a shoestring budget, take into consideration the experiences of entrepreneurs and professionals who have come to the same crossroads.

In fact, you'll be surprised to know that some of the most effective and reliable forms of advertising can be completed on a shoestring budget or even for free, boosting business and reaching out to untapped resources and customer bases.

«You can tighten your belt without your hurting your customers, your professionalism or your efficiency,» promises Kimberly Stans ll, author of Bootstrapper's Success Secrets: 151 Tactics for Building Your Business on a Shoestring Budget (Career Press, $ 13.99, 800 - CAREER - 1).»

Recently, however, that body of work has been fattened by the paperback Bootstrapper's Success Secrets: 151 Tactics for Building Your Business on a Shoestring Budget, by Kimberly Stansell (Career Press, 800-227-3371, 1997, $ 13.99).

For business owners on a shoestring budget, there are a handful of free, but basic tools to choose from.

Compared to major studio projects like the forthcoming Aaron Sorkin adaption of Walter Isaacson's popular biography of Jobs, this film was made on a shoestring, with an estimated budget of just $ 8.5 million.

Some of the pressure comes internally, as employees used to working on shoestring budgets press for looser spending.

David Donovan, owner of Shaolin Martial Arts, in Peoria, AZ, started his academy on a shoestring budget with a loan from his father - in - law.

Today's startups may take many forms: some are run as side hustles on shoestring budgets, while others may be backed by venture capitalists at multi-million dollar valuations even before a cent of revenue is generated.

Why are works of human compassion nearly always left to be operated by a mere handful on a shoestring budget?

Simeone arguably has more pedigree from his time with Atletico Madrid, whom he's won La Liga with and reached two Champions League finals on a shoestring budget compared to many of their European rivals.

The first decade was brilliant and for most of the second decade his ability to keep us in the Champions League on a relative shoestring budget was remarkable, but he has failed to push on since then and I think we need a new manager to take us forward.

Wenger has no idea how to deal with any of this — We do nt have the squad of Spurs and that was built on a shoestring budget and good money management.

We have gone through the sale of hoghbury and the building of emirates stadium the club was functioning on a shoestring budget with dedicated players and board.

We Arsenal fans have had way more than our fair share of disappointing transfer windows, especially during the last 10 years or so when the move from Highbury to the new Emirates Stadium and the way it was financed left Arsene Wenger trying to compete with cash rampant Premier League rivals like Man City and Chelsea on a shoestring budget.

All the Arsenal and Wenger critics conveniently forget that the club has been run on a shoestring budget in the last decade and lots of clubs that have spent much more have done much worse.

However, the Everton fans will miss their Scottish boss, after he brought them eleven years of incredible consistency despite operating on a shoestring budget.

Mr. Koch dreams of plastering his enemies» faces on highway billboards, but he laments what he calls a «shoestring» budget.

And he also pointed out that thanks to the explosion of social media, a campaign can gets its message out on a shoestring budget just as well — if not better — than spending millions of TV ads.

One of the big questions that emerged from the 2012 White House race is whether down - ballot candidates running on shoestring budgets would ever have access to the same data and technology President Barack Obama used to target voters.

Conducting successful science on a shoestring budget makes for a good story — but it is, more importantly, a vital skill set in times of declining research funding.

The bounty of potentially habitable planets has astronomers scrambling for ways to revive the spirit of the Terrestrial Planet Finder, but on a shoestring budget.

IBM noticed the successes that we were having building this machine on a shoestring budget and thought it would be interesting to have a group of us join IBM Research [in late 1989] to develop the next generation of this machine, called Deep Blue.

In recent years the array has been occasionally shuttered for lack of funds, and presently limps along on a shoestring budget, often via performing work with a less SETI - centric focus.

Part 1 was about how to get organized and part 2 was the breakdown of how to get fit for the big day on a shoestring budget and on a mid-level budget.

Matthew Remski described it perfectly: «on a shoestring budget in a non-corporate space, featuring all local teachers who will be all paid the same wage, workshops on yoga and social activism, no corporate sponsorship or import vendors, with all advertising materials printed in soy ink on 100 % recycled papers...» (Although, admittedly, the shoestring budget isn't part of my dream).

Many of the ongoing metformin studies around the world are «being done on a shoestring budget, in a sort of informal way,» Pollak says.

Upon further investigation, I realized that most of her then apartment was decorated with Craigslist finds and made - over thrift store treasures, reassuring me that my own shabby rental could one day be presentable, even on a shoestring budget.

Another film that went on to have it's own franchise pushed the boundaries of horror, made on a shoestring budget and executed in the most simplest of terms was Saw.

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box - office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master GEORGE A. ROMERO, is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box - office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.

«Boyhood,» director Richard Linklater's experimental coming - of - age film that was shot over 12 years on a shoestring budget, followed with three nominations for its ensemble cast and for Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.

Given the extreme low budget (the film was shot on a shoestring in Budapest), the special effects look pretty credible, with Petty wisely deciding to spend most of the time with the creatures in the background or swathed in shadow, understanding that Sentinel is a picture of ideas — an unusually faithful recreation of Hitchcock's film possessed of a similar, mordant sense of humour, if an understandable surfeit of corresponding depth.

Filmed on a shoestring budget against the backdrop of 1980s New York (where the movie would become a staple of the infamous 42nd Street grindhouse circuit), «Basket Case» has clawed its way from its humble origins to become one of the most celebrated cult movies of all time.

Night of the Living Dead (1968) Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, «Night of the Living Dead,» directed by horror master George A. Romero, is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box - office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.

He came from out of nowhere, made his film on a shoestring budget using crowdsourcing, mainly, to get it made.

Shot on a shoestring budget on the quick, neither were aware that it would go on to gross close to $ 100 million and become one of the most successful small - scale indies in history.

I would be cheating my own rules for this annual exercise if I were to crown Howards End as my film of the year - I have in fact seen it many, many times before and loved it for a long time (although never before was I able to enjoy the finesse of its narrative structure, and admire its sumptuous mise - en - scene and art direction - actually delivered on a shoestring budget - on a big screen).

For working on a shoestring budget, Vijayan and her technical team have put together a film that looks and sounds professional while never taking the emphasis off of the characters.

The dialogue and acting here are of above - average quality, though the actual story itself and directorial execution — though obviously done on a shoestring budget — are a bit less than stellar, suffering from a certain obviousness.

Thus, the director decided to take advantage of the presence of his crew and most of his cast and shot a full second feature, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus on a shoestring budget while waiting to complete principal photography on the film he was supposed to make in the first place.

In Search of a Midnight Kiss is an indie comedy romance story shot on a shoestring budget that was written and directed by Alex Holdridge.

But compare the two movies and you'll see the shortcomings with the company's model of producing movies on a shoestring budget.

Release: Friday, February 26, 2016 (limited)[Netflix] Written by: Perry Blackshear Directed by: Perry Blackshear They Look Like People is the debut feature from Perry Blackshear, a quietly unassuming hybrid of horror and psychological thriller elements built on a shoestring budget.

The big question, especially when operating the eLearning vertical on a shoestring budget is, which one of these you should be choosing.